Hpizaw HPP
- 2400 MW
Installed Capacity
- 12,870 GWh
Average annual energy
- 177.4 M
High dam
- 127 M
Net head of water
Hpizaw HPP is the third cascade HPP planned on the main stream of the Maykha River. Its dam site is about 240 km from Myitkyina City. Its installed capacity is 2400 MW and average annual energy is 12,870 GWh. Its dam designed is a 177.4m high concrete face rockfill dam. The reservoir has a normal pool level of EL665m and a total storage of 546 million cubic meters.
Survey and design for Hpizaw HPP were commenced but suspended due to armed conflicts in north Myanmar on April 26, 2012.